Being nerdy just means being passionate about something including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is whether it's sports or gaming or technology or fashion or beauty or food or whatever.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture or the beauty standard but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Now I'm not saying I'm fashionable but there are sociological interests that matter to me things that are theoretical political intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion but an idea of beauty.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty but I want to tear them apart.

Beauty is composed of an eternal invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine and a relative element which might be either by turns or all at once period fashion moral passion.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important I think. I do my own thing.